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From Boris Cherny: Claude Code & the Future of Engineering | Acquired Unplugged · ≈19:42
“The way it does this is coding. That's just kind of the natural language it speaks.”
“I didn't tell it anything about the tool and it just kind of figured out how to use it.”
“It wrote a little program that wrote a Apple script script. And like, I've never written Apple script.”
What’s in it
- How Claude figured out an unlabeled bash tool on its own
- Origin anecdote: agent wrote AppleScript to detect playing music
- Why coding is an AI model's natural way to act on the world
Clip transcript
to interact with the world because it exists as software. The way it does this is coding. That's just kind of the natural language it speaks. It's the thing it understands. And so, you know, like from the earliest days of quad code, I the very first version I gave it a bash tool so it can run commands on my computer. I didn't tell it anything about the tool and it just kind of figured out how to use it. And you know, there's this anecdote I've told a thousand times, but I asked it like, "What music am I listening to?" And it opened up the batch tool. It wrote a little program that wrote a Apple script script. And like, I've never written Apple script. And it wrote a little Apple script and it opened my music player and was like, "This is the song that you're listening to." And even back then, this was like sonnet 35. That was like not a very intelligent model. It was like the best at the time, but you know, by now by modern standards, it's not very intelligent. Um, it it just knew how to do this. So there there's something about writing code. There's something about, you know, using tools to interact with the world. It's
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